Bio
Hilda Hadan is a Ph.D. candidate in Systems Design Engineering, collaborating with Dr. Lennart E. Nacke and Dr. Leah Zhang-Kennedy. She is a member of HCI Games Group, and the Safe Interactions Lab. Hilda holds a Master's degree in Security Informatics from the Indiana University Bloomington, the United States, and a Bachelor's degree in Automation Engineering.
Awards
Hilda's dissertation research on deceptive design in VR is funded by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Contributions Program 2024-25 [see the project].
Hilda was awarded the 2023 Games Institute Seed Research Grant for her research on the privacy implications of XR [see the project].
Ongoing Projects
Deceptive Game Design in Virtual Reality
We developed a VR Deceptive Game Design Assessment Guide as our deductive codebook method for comparing deceptive design in computer and VR games. We adopted Gray et al. [1]’s ontology of deceptive designs as our starting point as it is the most recent and comprehensive framework at the time
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Deceptive Design in Games
Our study reveals nine deceptive design patterns in Overwatch’s transition to free-to-play, emphasizing the need for balanced player investment, fairness, and transparent communication in the evolving games industry.
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Privacy Implications of Extended Reality
Our survey of 464 XR users reveals that limited awareness of XR’s granular data collection restricts privacy-protective strategies, highlighting the need for better user education and transparent data practices in XR environments.
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The Great AI Witch Hunt: Reviewers’ Perception and (Mis)conception
Study reveals AI-assisted writing enhances readability but may miss critical insights, ‘human touch’. It advocates for reviewers’ focus on research quality and unbiased judgment, regardless of writing tools used.
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Selected Publications
- Hilda Hadan, Lydia Choong, Leah Zhang-Kennedy, and Lennart E. Nacke. 2024. Deceived by Immersion: A Systematic Analysis of Deceptive Design in Extended Reality. ACM Comput. Surv. 56, 10, Article 250 (May 2024), 25 pages. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3659945
- Hilda Hadan, Sabrina Alicia Sgandurra, Leah Zhang-Kennedy, and Lennart E. Nacke. 2024. From Motivating to Manipulative: The Use of Deceptive Design in a Game’s Free-to-Play Transition. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CHI PLAY, Article 309 (October 2024), 31 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/36770741
- Hilda Hadan, Leah Zhang-Kennedy, and Lennart E. Nacke. 2024. Computer-based Deceptive Game Design in Commercial Virtual Reality Games: A Preliminary Investigation. In Companion Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY Companion ’24), October 14–17, 2024, Tampere, Finland. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages.https://doi.org/10.1145/3665463.36788201